oh. this is you know we're here is live from berlin briggs it goes down to the wire as theresa may pleads for more time the british prime minister is in brussels making a last ditch attempt to buy more time and delay bragg's it but leaders say there can only be a delay if the british parliament ratifies the brig's it would roll agreement next week so is the country curling towards a no deal exit also coming up. our ass come up.

nearly two years tragedy on the teeth worse river more than seventy die after a ferry goes down near the iraqi city of mosul the overloaded punch was filled with families and children celebrating the kurdish new year. plus a taking action new zealand's prime minister now says a ban on semiautomatic weapons after the deadly mosque shootings in christ church only top security personnel including those now girding mosques across the country will be allowed to carry such firearms in the future. and rescuing people from devastating floods in mozambique a week after cycle only a day slammed south east africa tens of thousands are still without food or shelter and more rain is on the way.

rocket's great to have you along everyone always start off with a story that is dominating the political agenda here in europe brags it but as prime minister theresa may is in brussels on a mission to delay the u.k.'s departure from the european union she is scrambling to avoid a no deal exit the leaders are meeting in brussels for a summit where they're expected to agree to postpone bragg's it but today's decision comes with strings attached other in your leaders are saying may has to get a break that is agreement through parliament or the deal will be off all trees may i spoke to the media as soon as she arrived for this high stakes talks what is important is that hanumant delivers on the results of the referendum on the engine of the brics it for the british people i sincerely hope we can do that with a deal i'm still working on the ring the parliament can agree a deal so that we can leave in the was in a way what matters is is that region is

a on the bench of the british people for the thank you prime minister three for what mass is what matters is that we recognise that brics it is the decision of the british people now with the prime minister theresa may on a mission to delay let's gauge the mood in brussels with our us who is at that all important summit to gay or good to see you every summit of course is important but with a no deal breaks that staring everybody in the face i wonder does dick in you have any other choice but to approve a brags that extension regardless of how frustrated leaders are with the process. of the european union is of course still keen and they've always made that clear they do want to audit they do want to deal with the message that tourism a has received today from leaders from the twenty seven european countries here arriving here basically is that they're putting up the pressure the message forgeries or many is take the do. he'll get an extension and pass the deal through the house of

commons all it'll be a cliff and that pretty much is the message that the french president has set so you have really signs here that oppressive fatigue has reached its peak all right well let's listen to a german chancellor angela merkel again or kerry in the born to start this morning before she left for brussels where you are outlining her position on breaks it does take a listen. it's been nothing but awful but it is my firm conviction that we need to have a structured withdrawal of britain from the e.u. it's not just in the interest of britain itself which of course many that believe as well but it's also very much in the interest of jimmy and the interest of the twenty seven other member states of the e.u. stuff. it's been about thought. and i believe the key problem that has to do with

the whole question of ireland let's end this to not make. minister theresa may again is going for the hard sell today with her deal but i'm wondering is there currently anyone where you are who is prepared to go down in history as being responsible for making britain leave the e.u. with no deal and all that that would mean. that's of course a scenario every single you country would like to avoid that is why they've been negotiating that is why they've made compromises for two years but it you have the impression when you put that question to your leaders here that they're running out of answers they have made compromises they're ready to give a technical extension so a deal can be passed but there keep wondering if the house of commons if the british side does not know what they actually want does it make sense to give them

a longer extension i mean there is this idea that they get an extension for even a couple of months potentially of the until the end of the year which would mean they would participate in the european elections which would create all sorts of problems for theresa may but really the question is what will that help will that only delay a cliff edge president on disorderly breaks it all will that enlarge the chance maybe for a people's vote a no precedent all of all questions still on the table and european leaders made clear today the ball is in the u.k. score and just days a left all right gary marcus in brussels as always thank you for the update let's take you now straight to london today abuse bear get masa because a bear get up three said they will also have to work the charm offensive not just in brussels but also at home to get lawmakers to back her deal how is that going hashi convince the naysayers to get on board with her plan. well

it's reason they gave a speech last night and that speech has really angered a lot of m.p.'s because she put trade ourself almost as the same voice the voice of the. people and the m.p.'s as those who are obstructing the exit process so she has been called populist one opposition m.p. has said it's an attack on liberal democracy another one has pointed out that there were death threats to m.p.'s and that treason may if anything happens to any of them has to bear her share of the blame for that i was speaking to dominic grieve who does describes himself as a friend of terry's amaze a conservative m.p. he said he could have wept and also he said and that's pretty much echoed by everyone i've spoken about is so far they think that's reason may hasn't done herself any favors and most people seem to think that her deal next week isn't going to go three so she's antagonized the m.p.'s from support she relies on her needs basically i was certain is teresa mayes future right now i would use

a brigade. you have to bear in mind that's really only eight days until breaks it until the twenty ninth of march and the country is an absolute chaos so the expectation is that if the reason made doesn't get a deal through of course that's not a given she could just manage to scrape it through next week but if she doesn't get it through then the expectation is that m.p.'s are going to take control of the bricks and process and that they are trying themselves to forge some sort of consensus and possibly ask for a longer extension at the e.u. in order to be able to do that and the expectation is if that really did happen that's reason may couldn't really stay for that process and we understand that an online petition to revoke article fifty has gone viral and completely crashed can you tell us about that. that is really interesting it's

a petition that parliament will have to deal with it's non-binding it's for revoking article fifty and you can almost see the numbers getting up there it's now over a million signatures last time i checked and palm and we'll have to look at that but in another interesting development the two most powerful ladies in the business the leader of the trade unions and also of the biggest that is asian for british employers have published a joint letter they are urging to privatise to change course and go for it different plan a they call it a plan b. and it's very much in the of a know if looking for a customs union possibly but just to abandon the deal that's reason may is going to put once again in front of palm and so the voice for the voices for to change course are not just getting louder they're almost deafening hardberger mass reporting from london thank you. to iraq now where more than seventy people have

been killed after an overloaded ferry sunk and happened on the river in the city of mosul the vessel was reportedly packed with families celebrating the kurdish new year and the start of spring officials say search operations are still underway. well this is still very much a developing story let's get you more now with my colleague florian nor hafiz a journalist who lived in iraq and has a knows mosul iraq's second city a very intimately has been living there as well good to have you here with us for ian a horrifying accident happening there do we know what caused it well for one thing the more we having the rainy season in iraq which means the tigris river. we're going very rapidly reports say that the ferry has been very very overcrowded up two

hundred fifty two hundred people. we don't know exactly what the cause was but. my guess is that it was just too heavy and the current was too fast tragically most of the people who died in this ferry appeared to be children and women who couldn't who were and i swim very horrifying detail there that you add now of course what makes this even more poignant is that the people of mosul have just barely gotten through years of war are they've just been liberated from an occupation by yes they're still rebuilding that on the first day of spring this happens that's right iraq was when i was on the i association for almost three years about to liberate it was devastating losses for many months in this area where that incident took place that was is a recreational area there are lots of restaurants amusement parks cafes after the battle it was and twenty seventeen it was devastated but i mean to you later when i

visited it there were any families coming there trying to enjoy their life trying to get back to normality but it was a bit late last year it was buzzing with life it was almost like the whatever happened it's really tragic that somehow this would happen. to fly and not annoying hoff on that very tragic ferry accident where it seems to be a lot of children have died thank you so much for now thank you i. want to bring up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. is that five former brazilian presidents michelle to merit has been arrested in connection with a large scale corruption investigation prosecutors say to marilyn's arrested on charges related to alleged graft in the construction of nuclear power plant will tomorrow was present from twenty sixteen to twenty teams and as night any wrongdoing. at least five people have died and more than twenty have been injured

in this series of blasts in the afghan capital kabul the explosions occurred near a shiite shrine as people gathered to mark the persian new year police say the bombs were detonated remotely. when israeli forces are reportedly arrest that the chief of staff of opposition leader. were better zero zero zero was taken into custody during a raid on his kind of home that says at least according to the u.s. and other countries recognize mr grey do as interim president and have warned venezuela's government not to arrest him or his aides. rescue workers in mozambique have widened the search for survivors of a powerful cycling that ripped through southern africa one week ago causing devastating floods and turning mozambique's worst hit area of beirut in an inland sea a more than two hundred people are now confirmed dead and several thousand more still need to be rescued search efforts have been hampered by broken infrastructure and

more rain is expected in the coming days. and he spoke to the mayor of bayer davies see mongo early you're an asked him to tell us more about the current situation there coral grants to remembered the site on broad extremely high winds and that's what destroyed our city. public and private infrastructure schools hospitals and houses of old being destroyed well you know our economic infrastructure has also been badly affected. warehouses shops and stalls are damaged. telecommunications are down and we have a severe shortage of water. and some sellers are using the situation to drive up prices. or para is in darkness but at night it's a ghost town it's extremely painful to see our people don't have enough food and.

we're doing everything to make the roads passable again because fallen trees a blocking nearly every road in para or some of their political guru a lot of power lines are also down across the city well that's another good it's a great challenge to recover from this and try to get back to normal every. well given the huge challenges facing mayor samangan we asked him what people most urgently need right now. what they need most is food and shelter i mean people are homeless they need metal sheeting to repair the roofs on their houses they need water and they need clothing because their clothes are always repped away. those i think its challenges. and then there are many people especially older people and often children homeless and don't have anywhere to sleep well and our final

question to mayor cement and go it was we asked him about the future of his city and whether he thinks they are can ever recover from this tragedy. there is destroyed we have to start from zero and we have to prepare ourselves for that after world war so many countries rose from the ashes barrow must also rise from the ashes because barrow is completely destroyed. and across the border in zimbabwe the situation is just as dire it was also badly had by cyclon each day. during a flood victims and money money district the elderly man died when the mudslide crushed his home. i'm in pain my father in law had a painful death the house collapsed because of the cyclists it's hard to accept that he died that way. to be sure we are fortunate that our mother survived.

she was rescued alive. the official death toll from site. stands at around one hundred but hundreds more injured money money all missing feared dead people worry they won't have a body to bury with reports of corpses floating downstream into neighboring mozambique flash floods and landslides swept through this region leaving piles of rubble behind. desperate moments and a desperate situation for the two money money community in the eastern part of zimbabwe where this community was that had this to hit when cycle on a day swept through more sunday and zimbabwe you see some of them have lost their entire belongings and they have nothing that they asked to do on.

and nothing to do but wait. for me when all of this. mill ended their home or my family we've afflicted because we are there to be cloned we have nothing to. even. ourselves it's not this disaster is hampering my only consolation is that my family and i are alive. people. help is patchy roads and bridges that haven't been swept away are often still impassable. helicopters are lifting out the critically injured when they can low cloud means they can only fly occasionally. patients with a dangerous form. encouraged by admired or storms or also for going over the summer fractures broken limbs and doctors here say they're now seeing rooms turn

septic because it's taking so long to reach the injured for those bringing help it's a race against time. you're watching the news or so have a lot more to tell you here is what's coming up how this cafe in tehran became a haven a rare opportunity for employment for people with special needs. but first new zealand's prime minister just center arden has announced that the government hopes to have a ban on semiautomatic and military style weapons in place by next month the move follows friday's fatal shootings at two mosques in christ's church which left fifty people dead. was. one of the many vigils taking place across new zealand this week. as the country continues to come to terms with its worst mass shooting it's also taking radical

steps to prevent a tragedy like this from happening again. today i'm announcing that new zealand will be in all military style seamy order medic weapons we will ban or parts with the ability to convert semen automatic or any other type of firearm into a military style simi or domestic weapon the lone gunman who opened fire on worshipers at two mosques in christ church was armed with semiautomatic rifles he's believed to have modified them with high capacity magazines to make them fire faster from now on all of this along with assault rifles will be banned in new zealand owners of such weapons will have to turn them into the police but we as always want to do everything we can to ensure those people. get to bring the foreigners to soarin so read to them to us and make that possible and possible

quickly new zealanders in christ church and the cross the country have largely welcomed the law change as a necessary step to keep their communities safe. i think it's a step on the right direction something must change or spaced on the last experience i know some people could see this is a reaction. across reaction because of one person the consequences when what we've seen is this terrible and something must change i play nothing like this for him to garner gunless with for having me going the two mosques will reopen their doors on friday when must commemorations to mark a week on from the attack are due to take place. today is world down syndrome day one child in every thousand across the world is born with the genetic condition which means millions are affected and many still struggle to integrate fully in society but things are improving thanks to initiatives like this cafe key in the iranian capital tehran is not only a great place for people to enjoy

a cup of coffee but it also offers people living with down syndrome the basic rate of working and a flourishing in their community. is completely in his element serving couple chinos to the guests in this cafe to waiting tables this is first ever job and the forty year old is loving every second of it. you know i like the cafe it's big and it's nice and. that's why i'm so grateful to the owner. that every night when i go to bed i thank her for that. and the others who work here have little chance of finding work elsewhere iran's job market is currently in such a bad state that over a third of college educated young iranians are unemployed for people with special

needs it's become nearly impossible to find work. for most of those people there's nothing to do once they finish school they just stay at home but we're convinced it's good for them to show people that they have other abilities not just good for them it's also good for their families they're often sad because they can't do anything but here they can show just what they're capable of in. more than forty people living with down syndrome autism work here regularity everybody pitches in doing what they can brewing coffee waiting tables or entertaining the guests with music. they all get paid for their work except for the cafe owner he she runs a deficit every month there are very few government programs to support social

projects like this one in the islamic republic. we've never received support from any kind of organization it's a completely independent project founded and finance privately were totally self dependant negative. giving up is not an option because every day she sees just how much this work means to him run and the others. are used to just be with my father. but father look at me. i finally made it. well i'm famous and go through life with my head raised high see. you. with a positive attitude imraan and his colleagues have created an atmosphere found nowhere else in the islamic republic.

no other cafe here in iran could get away with this level of frivolity imran and the others are making the best of being a little bit different and have transformed coffee down tizen into a place that's bursting with positivity. next germany's national football team played a friendly against serbia last night it was their first outing this year and they sported a new look a young team after curse of x. three senior players while the spite playing at home and could only manage a draw. serbia struck first through a header from my chart frankfurt's lukey overage serbia took that one goal lead into the break germany without the x. thomas religare although a tank and much households took their time to respond but they couldn't get the ball past serbian keeper marco demitra bitch. but leon gorecki managed to find an opening in level to school. guys think about the man that you saw

what we were all about from our performance in the first stuff we spent too much time in areas didn't bring us much we talked about the tough time and did things better in the second longest we're going to know when it's not enough of us are going to think of them and i feel we have to make sure that we perform you saw that today but with the chances we had in the second half we have to win the game to get over that's what not to talk much about is given us credit for that there was drama in injury time as serbia's milan pav koff was sent off for a bad foul on lee roy's side may look lisa may set the foul looked worse than it was and is expected to be ok the one one finish isn't the best two enough for germany to kick off their twenty twenty euro qualification against the netherlands on sunday. now sports means technology in a new croatian invention the electric surfboard well for engineering graduates have worked on this a water sports revolution for two years which allows the user to surf without the

need for waves hydrofoil a suspense the board over the water it's all set to become a new attraction on croatia's adriatic beaches. not sure if it's still surfing without ways there are states. if i give you news asia and also you're going to the top of the hour.

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thinks deep into the german culture of looking at the stereotypes square in here think the future of the country that i'm not. yet you don't seem ridiculous grama there you go it's all about a new i'm rachel join me to meet the gentleman from d.w. . post. this is d.-day. coming up on the program access to education it's especially tough when you live in a refugee camp looking at children in bangladesh eager to learn so why won't the adults in government left and. a detergent ad for a holy star in a hindu girl and a muslim boy provokes a hindu nationalist backlash. plus we go behind the scenes at the world's biggest film studio where for the foot soldiers.